For the latest post in our Radical Books series, Ole Birk Laursen tracks the influence of Maxim Gorky’s anti-Tsarist poem ‘Song of the Falcon’ on Russian and Indian revolutionaries before the Russian Revolution
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Radical Books: Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
The Wretched of the Earth was the final work of Frantz Fanon, a fearless critic of colonialism and a key figure in Algeria’s struggle for independence. This new history of the ‘Third World’ depicted the unresolved and open-ended nature of the struggle for liberation.
The Red and the Black: The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic: 13-15 October, Preston
Conference to be held at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 13-15 October 2017, to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution.
El Otro: A Homosexual Liberation Paper from Colombia
Homosexuals needed to communicate, they needed to debate and, most important of all, they needed to organize.
Self-publish and be Damned: A call for Radical Publishing Alternatives
Lesley Hulonce advocates a revolution in academic publishing, including radical alternatives like self publishing.
The Domino Revolutions: 1848, 1989, 2011
The successive overthrow of apparently well established governments in Tunisia, Egypt and then Libya prompts the question: how do revolutions spread? Kevin Adamson and Mike Rapport of the School of History and Politics at the University of Stirling compare years of ‘domino’ revolutions.
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